These are all good questions, and I'm sure they will have the guidelines for this stuff up soon. I imagine the IOC wouldn't let it just be number crunching. It would have to be a separate event to get approval, I'd think.
However, the point stands that while figure skating is not speed skating, most other Olympic sports DO have multiple events for athletes. If a skier does bad or well in one event, they are emotional about it, and then they pick themselves up and do their next event a couple days later.
Sure, it's not an artistic/performance sport, and maybe figure skaters would be more impacted in a team skating event by a prior success/failure, but even non-artistic athletes have to struggle with that sort of thing, I imagine.
Basically, the way I see it is it's another chance for a medal. Yay!
Until all those questions have real answers and until the skaters themselves weigh in on it AFTER trying a season of skating it alongside their other events, I'm saving my rage.
Hmmmm I wonder what the skaters think about this. It's another chance of getting an Olympic medal, but idk they'll be tired of the whole Olympic stress.
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Maybe they'll select the top people from their country to do team as well.
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However, the point stands that while figure skating is not speed skating, most other Olympic sports DO have multiple events for athletes. If a skier does bad or well in one event, they are emotional about it, and then they pick themselves up and do their next event a couple days later.
Sure, it's not an artistic/performance sport, and maybe figure skaters would be more impacted in a team skating event by a prior success/failure, but even non-artistic athletes have to struggle with that sort of thing, I imagine.
Basically, the way I see it is it's another chance for a medal. Yay!
Until all those questions have real answers and until the skaters themselves weigh in on it AFTER trying a season of skating it alongside their other events, I'm saving my rage.
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